nin137

Nick's Journal
2004-12-08 23:53:02 (UTC)

Me is good

so i went to the doctor for my check up. about 4 months ago
i got a call from one of the secretaries telling me that i
had liver damage. she told me to stop drinking, fucking
midget hookers, and doing drugs. last friday i went back to
the doctor and had an enlightening conversation.
"so what brings you here today?"
"ummm, a cbc for my liver damage? i have enlarged red blood
cells."
silence.
"oh yeahhhh, heh, well funny thing about that, you see the
nurse read it wrong. you see it goes through....blah blah
blah."
let me give you the (somewhat) succinct version. when they
took my cbc (complete blood count, i think) it showed that i
had enlarged red blood cells. which is a symptom of one of
three things:
1.) vitamin defiency (i didn't have that)
2.) genetics
3.) liver damage
so the nurse saw that i took zyrtec and told the dr. that it
was a probable liver damage. the dr. forgot that i had him
check for liver damage and confirmed that i probably had it
due to the symptom. as it turned out i didn't have any
problem there at all so it's genetics.
phew.
so here i am drinking a beer. i guess those 3 months showed
me i didn't really need it, it provided a nice little bridge.
i guess i should explain how such an error occured.
as far as i know most dr.s send their blood work out to a
third party usually labcorp or something like that. they
take the cbc do an analysis and basically highlight
"problematic errors" assuming this cuts down on the dr.s
wasting their time. ironically enough it goes through a
nurse anyhow and she basically gets her vagina all full of
sand the second she sees two alarm factors going off (in my
case a medication and enlarged red blood cells = damaged
liver). she relays this to the dr. who i guess just says,
"yeah whatev!"
anyway, enough of my trial and tribulations. last person
who made a media frenzy of that is dead now.




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